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Originally Posted by Excaliber
This ruling is a surprise to me and it begs the question: DID the US over react, again, as they did in WW2?
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Ernie, you have outdone yourself with this quote. I take it you mean the internment of the Japanese? An 'over-reaction'? Hmmm, you are attacked by a well armed, effective fighting force which has been waging successful, aggressive, and brutal war for 12 years (recall Nanking or Manchuria?). In this attack you are militarily devastated, and your commanders tell you that it is extremely possible that the enemy could launch not only a Hawaiian invasion, but strike the mainland as well and penetrate as far as Chicago before you are 100% prepared. I suppose history revisionists would argue that FDR should have set up a few dozen committees and talked it all to death, rather than
act and try to save the country from further losses? It has been proven beyond a doubt that there were indeed spies on the islands, feeding intelligence to the Japanese government. How would you have found them, and how long would it have taken? 'Over-reaction' IMHO does not exist in war when you are fighting for survival, especially when fighting an enemy as ruthless and brutal as the Empire of Japan circa WWII. Or does your 20/20 hindsight excuse them as it seems to excuse the current fanatics?